Rough' tax rises on the way

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What does this even mean? I can't take much more. Not with the rising energy prices and the absolute mess up of the mortgage interest rates rising.

How will people survive? Already we have not had pay rises and now we will all probably be taxed more.

I feel at the end of my tether. It's really affecting my mental health.

yes, this!

This country has been living on the never never for decades. We make very little now, relying on importing goods from countries with low or no protection for their workforce, import most of our food, have sold off most of our infrastructure to foreign governments and in return offer the world "services".

A lot of these "services" are somewhat dubious, relying on sleight of hand and financial shenanigans to magically create "wealth" which can easily come tumbling down (see recent wobble over pension funds where a trillion pounds nearly disappeared - did it fall down the back of a sofa?).

AI will soon replace a lot of these wonderful "services"; what's left to bring in the desperately needed Dollar, Euro and Renminbi - an end-of-pier show based on the ludicrous Royal Family?

We can't go on like this. We are not a Global power, it's time to stop swaggering around interfering with other countries conflicts & dutifully following the USA into all of it's mismanaged, military-led interventions. We don't need any aircraft carriers, let alone two new ones that break down, much to the amusement of the 100s of countries that get by with none.

We can't treat our sick, we can't care for our frail, we can't house our homeless and we can't warm our cold. I hate to think how things will look in 10 or 20 years time.

Completely agree.
Rejoining the EU won't happen though because they won't let us (I don't blame them).
Rejoining the SM won't happen because Brexit voters would sooner we all starve. Plus, we won't be free to dump shit in the sea anymore.
Tories won't go after big business because the whole party is in the pocket of big business and they have to deliver for their sponsors.

Instead of criminal charges, Truss is going to get nearly 200k a year from us.

TAX THE RICH
TAX THE MEGA CORPORATIONS

Hopefully they get rid of the triple lock and benefits rises if public sector pay is to be frozen. Our main pay will be frozen but our sideline can make up for some of the shortfall.

What annoys me about the help the bottom the most, is it takes away the pay premium of the higher paid who shoulder the tax burden. Whats the point in doing a high stress job for not much more than someone doing a much less stressful job. To me that part for the Tory plan doesn't work as it doesn't stimulate growth and aspiration. I could accept say a 1% tax rise across the board as that is fair, along with cutting all unessential spending.

In effect the country needs a debit management plan, I wish they would put it out to a public vote of where they want to see the cuts;

My priorities would always be
Education
Health
Defence
emergency services
Including fair pay to retain the best staff in these sectors.

What is left can then be divided amongst the other things that are nice to have in a western society but we really can't afford. Things like free bus passes, warm home grants, universal free school meals and things like council spending on potted plants need to stop. Our local council includes pest control as a free service.....it's called a cat and paying for any other issues (we are rural it happens)!!!

Why they gave everyone £600 for energy is also beyond me, our rebate paid the entire energy bill last month as we invested in solar power. Paying for solar panels/ground source heat pumps for homes would be a much more long term solution and could even be as the form of a loan added to council tax of a property.

It's time for reform of something's being extras provided by the government that you pay for if you want them. So say remove refuge collection from council tax the you can pay the council X for it or a private company Y

You mean companies should pay back furlough right? The people who were furloughed had no choice

It’s looking increasingly bleak

Absolutely.
lower standards of services plus lower income plus more poverty will be so destructive and damaging long term it will take decades to recover.

I can't shake the feeling that the Tories know the next GE is lost so will just have a fire sale on their way out.

Revisionist BS. Over 200,000 British people have died of this “flu”.

Yes taxes are about to rise and public services will be cut further.

To pay for the lockdown largesse.

What did people think would happen when they were sat at home enjoying the leisurely lifestyle for months with the economy completely shut down? Did they think there would be no consequence of printing half a trillion £. Folks couldn’t get enough of the restriction and wholesale destruction of the economy. They were ready to shop their neighbours for taking a second walk of the day. If you were stupid enough to support locking up healthy adults and shutting down the economy, perhaps you’re too stupid to see this as an inevitable consequence.

False.

Those people died within 28 days of testing positive for this flu. Even someone who died in a car crash within 28 days was recorded this way.

It was a novel virus.

And it isn’t mild flu FFS. Look at the “unexplained” high death rates and increase in heart disease even after an initially mild infection. Plus long covid.

The issue was letting companies claim for furlough (not individuals!!!!) which opened it up to huge fraud. Better to have done it via individuals as the scope for fraud is much lower.

The government was right to take action - as did many other governments. Whether it took the right action is another matter but don’t bleat about Sweden (which did close some schools by the way!).

The problem is and always was the abject failure of austerity (and Brexit!) which hamstrung the economy. I remember at the start of Covid, there were noises about dealing Brexit because experts knew it would hit the UK hard while dealing with a pandemic.

If the 2010 Conservative government had invested in infrastructure ie borrowed to invest, we would have had a stronger economy and be on a better footing now.

When will people wake up and realise that Neo-liberal economic policies do not work for the majority. It’s elite economics - the rich get richer and we all sink. They dress it up as “austerity”, “oh the rich are the ones that invest” etc and find enemies such as the workless, asylum seekers etc to distract from the reality.

You’ve got to back up your bullshit please.

Tbf most companies would not have chosen to be closed either. So I wouldn’t do this, plus probably drive many out of business.

The lockdown demands were across the public too

Stop with the false dichotomy.

The choice was between locking down only the elderly and locking down everyone. But the hysterical shrieking was off the scale in favour or locking down everyone. Well, now the chickens have come home to roost.

Except they were recorded as having died “with it” if they died of any reason within 28 days of a diagnosis! So if I had been run over by a bus a week after recovering from covid, I would have been included in those numbers. It’s a load of bollocks!

Look it up. There’s this thing called Google. Or do you need a govt press conference to spoon feed you basic facts.

I'd happily pay more tax if public services (especially schools and healthcare) are at a good standard AND I can afford to feed my family and pay my bills!
The only real solution is all those companies making huge profits pay their fair share of tax and all companies pay fair wages

Needs spoon feeding.
coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths

This post is an example of how the electorate is clueless. These people think Truss’ 4 weeks in power caused this and not 14 years of money printing worth one trillion £ or the low productivity economy created under nu Labour.

As long as the electorate lacks a grasp on basic economic principles, stuff like this will keep happening.

Google tells me your claim about covid on car crash death certificates is Bull Shit.

What was growth under New Labour from 1997 to 2010?

Also bullshit.

That link says death within 28 days of a covid test? What has that got to do with car crashes on death certificates?

Where do you get your news from?